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A γευστικός Greek Breakfast On Aegean Airlines

Matthew Klint Posted onMay 4, 2019May 4, 2019 13 Comments

Each week, my Meal of the Week feature examines an airline meal from my travels over the years. This may be a meal from earlier in the week or it may be a meal served over a decade ago.

This week’s Meal of the Week centers on an incredibly γευστικός (tasty) breakfast I enjoyed on Aegean from Athens to Frankfurt.

The flight occurred in 2017: my family had just wrapped up a great trip to Greece and were flying from ATH to FRA to catch a flight back to the West Coast. As with all international flights on Aegean, a complimentary meal was served after takeoff. This flight left around 8:00 AM and thus a hot breakfast was offered to each passenger.

There was no choice. Each passenger was offered a tray containing an undisclosed wrapped item.

Upon pulling back the foil, I found baked feta cheese wrapped in filo and topped with sesame seeds. On the side was yogurt, honey, a piece of bread with butter and strawberry preserve, and a piece of chocolate.

WOW! WOW! This was a tasty breakfast. The combination of flavors was superb, rivaling that of the kanafeh I enjoyed aboard Middle East Airlines (a similar dish).

If you fly on Aegean in the morning out of Athens, you should hope that this is served – it is a wonderful, satisfying breakfast.

I should add here that I so appreciate the consistently kind and professional service on Aegean, another great reason to fly this airline.

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Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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13 Comments

  1. Roland Scheckter Reply
    May 4, 2019 at 8:21 am

    I also once flew (as the only pax) in C ATH-OSL on the morning flight., and was impressed with the food and service from the smiling (both very pretty) flight hostesses, who had me smiling as well for the whole trip 🙂

    • Matthew Reply
      May 4, 2019 at 11:52 pm

      I’ll stipulate the FAs are ubiquitously beautiful.

  2. Paolo Reply
    May 4, 2019 at 9:02 am

    Yes, it’s a tasty dish. I don’t ‘get’ Aegean’s strategy, though. They are the defacto national carrier and yet seem to remain entirely focused on short haul, leaving Athens sadly short of intercontinental flights.
    One can understand some reticence to expand quickly, especially in the light of the demise of Olympic. But have have nothing larger than the A321-200 and, it seems, no acquisition plans. New routes 2019 are strictly regional: Valencia, Sarajevo, Tunis.
    It’s a pity they don’t try something a bit bold: a Bangkok service to link with Thai flights to Australia ( after all, Melbourne has the largest Greek population outside Greece) or to Canada, or even the US.
    They are profitable, seem to be well-managed; the passenger experience is good , but one only gets to fly them on very short ‘boutique’ sectors.

    • Matthew Reply
      May 4, 2019 at 11:53 pm

      100% agree. I hope longhaul service will arrive one day.

  3. d Reply
    May 4, 2019 at 3:31 pm

    First, you have to bite or break the cheese pie so we can see what it looks like inside Matthew, what is this, amateur night at the Apollo?

    Second, I am not too impressed, the cheese pie looks dry, the bread stale and not very tasty, probably the yogurt is the best part, but hardly a great breakfast by Greek standards (or any standards).

    • Matthew Reply
      May 4, 2019 at 11:54 pm

      Yeah, I’m sorry about not having a picture of the inside. No idea why I did not take one. Still, it was so tasty I wanted to write about it.

  4. Theo Reply
    May 4, 2019 at 5:38 pm

    Please don’t write in another language again I thought my phone was having a seizure

    • Matthew Reply
      May 4, 2019 at 11:54 pm

      Ha! It’s the first time and may be the last. But I love the Greek characters.

  5. MeanMeosh Reply
    May 4, 2019 at 10:55 pm

    As much as I dislike feta, that does look good.

    • Matthew Reply
      May 4, 2019 at 11:47 pm

      So good!

  6. Greg Reply
    May 5, 2019 at 8:45 am

    While I always try to fly Aegean, over the likes of British Airways when flying from Heathrow to Athens, as generally Aegean’s service is much better than BA, I do find that their evening offerings are quite often quite mediocre. Think pasta/orzo with a tomato sauce, with what feels like a teaspoon if sauce and just plain pasta.

  7. Scott Schultz Reply
    May 6, 2019 at 7:34 am

    My wife and I have been served those meals a couple of times when flying back and forth from Munich to the Greek isles during the German 4 day weekends. We don’t find them to be that good. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

  8. journeying john Reply
    May 6, 2019 at 11:00 am

    Fairly clear Why Snr Cruz’ lies about “very, very, very few seats in Europe with catering / refreshments” make British Airways BestAvoided given their fares are higher and yet they still charge even for water… Agean don’t offer a luxury service but neither do they simply screw their customer base and fail to deliver the product as sold.

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